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Tutorials and FAQs / Dual Stack he.net Custom POST protocol on OPNsense 23.7.4
« on: September 17, 2023, 07:50:32 pm »
Version 1: 9/17/2023
Because it’s free and after bloodying my forehead for a weekend, this method seems to work flawlessly with he.net's Dynamic DNS Service for my dual stack set up.
This guide describes one approach to utilize the os-ddclient native backend to facilitate updating he.net DDNS on a dual-stack network with the Custom Post protocol option. Thank you to DaCookie4u!
Install os-ddclient plugin (Dynamic DNS)
Configure Services / Dynamic DNS / Accounts (two accounts required, one for each ip stack)
Important: When utilizing he.net's Free DNS Service, Usernames (which is yourdomain.com), Hostnames (also yourdomain.com), and Passwords (keys) are identical for both IPv6 & IPv4. When you change either A or AAAA record keys for an identical hostname, you change both record keys. (https://dns.he.net/docs.html)
When you get done with that, you should see something like this, but likely less blurry
Configure Services / Dynamic DNS / Settings / General Settings
Nirvana!
Because it’s free and after bloodying my forehead for a weekend, this method seems to work flawlessly with he.net's Dynamic DNS Service for my dual stack set up.
This guide describes one approach to utilize the os-ddclient native backend to facilitate updating he.net DDNS on a dual-stack network with the Custom Post protocol option. Thank you to DaCookie4u!
Install os-ddclient plugin (Dynamic DNS)
Configure Services / Dynamic DNS / Accounts (two accounts required, one for each ip stack)
IPv6
- Enabled: checked
- Description: Give it one that denotes IPv6
- Service: custom
- Protocol: Custom POST
- Server: https://dyn.dns.he.net/nic/update
- Username: Corresponding domain name of AAAA Dynamic DNS Record @ he.net
- Password: Corresponding key of AAAA Dynamic DNS Record @ he.net
- Hostname(s): Corresponding domain name of AAAA Dynamic DNS Record @ he.net (ie. Username & Hostname identical)
- Check ip method: Any method that exclusively returns an IPv6 address
- Interface to monitor: WAN
- Force SSL: checked
IPv4
- Create the IPv4 Service just as the IPv6 above, with the following exceptions:
- Description: Give it one that denotes IPv4
- Check ip method: Any method that exclusively returns an IPv4 address
Important: When utilizing he.net's Free DNS Service, Usernames (which is yourdomain.com), Hostnames (also yourdomain.com), and Passwords (keys) are identical for both IPv6 & IPv4. When you change either A or AAAA record keys for an identical hostname, you change both record keys. (https://dns.he.net/docs.html)
When you get done with that, you should see something like this, but likely less blurry
Configure Services / Dynamic DNS / Settings / General Settings
- Enable: checked
- Verbose: Likely a good idea to check it, until you know it works for you
- Allow IPv6: checked
- Interval: default is 300, I later went with 600 (10 minutes)
- Backend: native (important as default is ddclient!)
Nirvana!